Professor Boris Gurevich
Research Areas/Expertise
- Modelling elastic properties of fractured reservoirs
- Angular fracture distributions and squirt-flow effects in isotropic rocks.
- Seismic signatures of patchy saturation
- Velocity-stress relationships (for 4D)
- Simulation of rock properties from microstructure
- Modelling of properties of rocks saturated with heavy oil
Professor of Petroleum Geophysics
Department Exploration Geophysics, Curtin University of Technology.
Director of Curtin Reservoir Geophysics Consortium (CRGC).
WA:ERA projects
Seismic response of partially saturated petroleum reservoir zones: towards quantitative recovery monitoring (Chief investigator)
Computational Rock Physics (Chief investigator)
Modeling and inversion of tube-wave signatures for formation permeability changes in producing boreholesn (Chief investigator)
Curtin Reservoir Geophysics Consortium (Director)
Background
Boris has worked as a researcher for the Institute of Geosystems, Moscow and was a visiting scientist at the Geophysical Institute of Karlsruhe University and at Birkbeck College of London University. He also worked as a research geophysicist at the Geophysical Institute of Israel.
His research interests include theory of seismic/acoustic wave propagation in rocks and other porous materials, and seismic imaging. He is a member of SEG, AGU and EAGE.
Education
Ph.D. (Geophysics)
M.Sc. (Exploration Geophysics)
Grants
ARC Linkage Project to collaborate with ANU to develop a capability for simulation of dynamic elastic properties of rocks from microtomographic images (Computational Rock Physics).
Curtin Strategic Research Funding until 2011.
Publications
Contact
Email: B.Gurevich(at)curtin.edu.au